Nicholas of Cusa
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For most of the history of Western philosophy, self-awareness of ignorance was considered a virtue, the worthy object of intellectual pursuit — what the fifteenth-century philosopher Nicholas of Cusa called learned ignorance, or docta ignorantia.
From Nature • Jun. 23, 2020
Nicholas of Cusa In the 15th century, the German cardinal Nicholas of Cusa held advanced scientific views for his time, including that the Earth was not the center of the universe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2010
But at the same time he was deeply influenced by Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard, and some of his first writings were on the German Christian mystics Jakob Boehme, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nicholas of Cusa had turned the earth into a true star, but only at the price of turning the sun into an earth—hardly anyone was prepared to follow him.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Nicholas of Cusa and Nicolaus Copernicus cracked open the nutshell universe of Aristotle and Ptolemy.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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